All Hands conference tackles the 'grand challenges'
The UK e-Science All Hands Meeting began this morning in Nottingham. Now a regular fixture on the conference calendar, the meeting will look at the latest results in e-Science and provide a forum for discussion and demonstration of a broad range of e-Science projects from all disciplines.
Among the topics to be discussed at this year’s meeting are: the use of virtual globes, such as Google Earth, to visualise environmental data; using e-Science techniques to enable environmental scientists to devise strategies to combat pollution, and exploring how e-Science can support the delivery of healthcare at home using personal monitors.
The conference is a forum for all e-Science researchers, developers and users, no matter what their discipline. Sessions will address key grid middleware issues, as well as scientific applications, including how to make e-Science usable, integrating data on the grid, virtual research environments, text and data mining, security, visualisation on the grid, and ontologies and the semantic web. e-Science results and achievements will be demonstrated at a major exhibition throughout the week.
Keynote speakers include: Professor Malcolm Atkinson, UK e-Science Envoy;Dr Satoshi Sekiguchi and Dr Isao Kojima from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in Japan; Professor Anders Ynnerman of Linkoping University, Sweden, and Professor John Wood, Principal Designate, Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College London, and chair of Jisc’s Support of Research committee (JSR).
The conference is organised by the National e-Science Centre (NeSC), co-sponsored by the e-Science Core Programme and the Jisc.
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